January 12, 2017
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Attorney General speaks on legality of UK pre-emptive drone strikes By Chris Cole
UK Attorney General Jeremy Wright’s speech at the IISS on Wednesday evening, “The modern law of self-defence”, trailed by advanced PR as “setting out the legal basis for British military strikes against terror targets overseas”, gained a flurry of advance media coverage. I’m sure others far more qualified will comment in detail on the legal… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for January 11, 2017: Who Owns The Movement, Dems For War Left For Peace, Contradiction in the Time of Trump
12 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Who Owns the Movement, and Where Are They Taking It? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon As funders of the nonprofit industrial complex, the one percent of one percenters literally own what most of us call the movement. Last summer the “Ford Foundation and anonymous donors” pledged Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 12 January 2017
12 January 2017 — Information Clearing House Trump Sex Blackmail, New Twist in Witch-Hunt By Finian Cunningham If Trump does not toe the line, then he is liable to be impeached as a “foreign agent” or have his character assassinated. Continue reading
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WaPo’s Factcheck of WikiLeaks Highlights Paper’s Strange View of Facts
The Washington Post (1/5/17) “factchecks” Julian Assange’s claims without either proving or disproving them. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Fox News, 1/3/17) again denied that the leaked e-mails he published during the election came from Russia—an assertion contradicted by many anonymous US intelligence officials. “We can say, we have said repeatedly over the last two months,… Continue reading
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